Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Cunningham and Nigel Adams

Tuesday 15th June 2021 Commons Chamber

[Nigel Adams]

As my hon. Friend will know, this Government have led international efforts over many years to promote accountability, reconciliation and human rights in Sri Lanka, including at the UN Human Rights Council. The new UK-led resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council in March included, for the first time, a request for the UN

“to collect, consolidate, analyse and preserve information and evidence”

of human rights abuses and violations so that this can be used to support future accountability processes.

[Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)]

What recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of reductions in the UK aid budget on tackling the covid-19 pandemic.